True leaders
are hardly known to their followers.
Next after them are the leaders
the people know and admire;
after them, those they fear;
after them, those they despise.
To give trust
is to get trust.
When the work is done right.
with no fuss or boasting,
ordinary people say,
Oh, we did it.
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I am a slow reader with limited attention span so you know if I stuck with a book I was hooked.
![Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by [Judt, Tony]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/518ubScczcL.jpg)
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By Amy Lowell
I just read this and it was like a Christmas gift from Amy Lowell given in 1914 received 103 years later.
… It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth that can be radical.
Hannah Arendt
Since these mysteries are beyond me, let us pretend to be the organizers of them.
—Jean Cocteau, The Wedding Party on the Eiffel Tower
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
-Albert Camus
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